Hartford Hospital is an 819-bed acute care hospital located in South End of Hartford, Connecticut. The Hartford Hospital was founded in 1854. The hospital campus is located on Seymour Street in Hartford, and is directly adjacent to the main campus of the Connecticut Children Medical Center.
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Hartford Hospital is ranked # 2 in Connecticut by U.S. News Best Hospitals and ranked # 1 in Hartford, Connecticut metro area by the same source. The hospital is a major tertiary care facility for the state and state areas designated as Level I Trauma Center, able to care for the most critical patients. It has over 35 operating rooms one of the largest surgical cases in the United States. The emergency room receives about 96,000 visits per year.
Helicopter ambulance
Hartford Hospital operates the only air ambulance service in Connecticut, LIFE STAR, which began operating in 1985 and operated one Eurocopter BK-117 American helicopter and one Eurocopter EC-145 America. One helicopter is based at Midstate Medical Center in Meriden, CT. and the other based at the affiliated Backus Hospital in Norwich, Connecticut. LIFE STAR provides patient and inter-patient transportation between hospitals in New England and New York. In addition, LIFE STAR provides support for advanced life and transport scenes for the most critically and medically unstable patients in Connecticut. These patients are taken to a statewide Level I or state-level trauma center according to state regulations. The program averages 1,400 transport patients per year and plays an important role in providing quick access to trauma care for patients in remote, rural areas.
Hyperbaric space
Hartford Hospital operates the second largest multi-place hyperbaric space in Northeastern United States, second only to Phelps Memorial Hospital Center, in Sleepy Hollow, NY. Able to treat up to ten patients at a time, this space treats chronic wounds and emergencies, such as carbon monoxide poisoning and Necrotizing Fasciitis.
Jefferson House
Jefferson House is a department of Hartford Hospital that has provided long-term care and rehabilitation services to seniors in the greater Hartford area for over 120 years. Jefferson House is a 104-bed long-term care facility, serving approximately 92 residents.
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History
The hospital was set up in 1854 after Connecticut State granted a charter for the Hartford Hospital Establishment after a kettle explosion and resulted in a fire in Fales and Gray Car Works that resulted in 19 deaths and 23 seriously injured.
Jefferson House History
Originally located at 36 Jefferson Street in Hartford, The Parents House in Hartford offers "elderly alternatives to poor regional homes." The Connecticut Legislature adopted the facility with the Special Act in 1873 and opened its doors on 1 December 1884.
The Connecticut State Public Document describes the house:
PERSONAL PROVISION FOR AGE HARTFORD PARENT HOUSE
LA Sexton MD SuperintendentThe Old People's Home was under the same management as Hartford Hospital and was organized by an act of the General Assembly in 1873. An attractive three-story brick and stone building was erected for the use of the House on Jefferson Street opposite the grounds of the Hospital, and has accommodation for seventy people. The rooms are large and well equipped and everything is provided which will ensure for the occupants of the designated home comforts. Religious services are held every Sunday afternoon from October to July in an attractive and comfortable chapel at the western end of the building.
Households must be good citizens of Connecticut not under the age of sixty-five and in reduced circumstances. For several years applicants for admission have exceeded so many means from Home to support them that it has been necssary [sic] to make a $ 1,000 entrance fee for permanent inmates. Some boarders receive $ 7.00 per week and Houses are fully charged at all times.
The name was changed to Jefferson House in 1953. The house was nurtured and honored under the concept of long life care until 1979 when the last native died. It treated 662 patients from 1884 to 1979.
The new facility was built and opened in Newington, Connecticut in 1980, as a short-term rehabilitation facility.
Medical education
Hartford Hospital has trained doctors for over 160 years, through residency and fellowship programs. A number of training programs are offered to newly graduated doctors (MD and DO), each of which is accredited by the Board of Accreditation for Post-Graduate Education.
Hospital rating data
The HealthGrades website contains clinical quality data for Heart of the Hartford Hospital, by 2017. For this assessment section, three different types of data from HealthGrades are presented: clinical quality assessment for thirty-one conditions and inpatient procedures, twelve safety indicators and the percentage of patients who gave the hospital as 9 or 10 (two highest ratings).
For conditions and inpatient procedures, there are three possible ratings: worse than expected, as expected, better than expected. For this hospital, the data for this category are:
- Worse than expected - 5
- As expected - 24
- Better than expected - 2
For patient safety indicators, there are three possible ratings in common. For safety indicators this hospital is assessed as:
- Worse than expected - 1
- As expected - 12
- Better than expected - 0
Percentage of patients rated this hospital as 9 or 10 - 63% Percentage of patients who average hospital ratings as 9 or 10 - 69%
See also
- Austin Cornelius Dunham
- List of hospitals in Connecticut
References
External links
- Official Site
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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